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Nameless Country gathers poems by the Scottish-Jewish poet Arthur `A.C.’ Jacobs, whose work, somewhat critically neglected in the past, has gained new resonance for twenty-first-century readers. Writing in the shadow of the Holocaust, Jacobs in his poems confronts his complex cultural identity as a Jew in Scotland, as a Scot in England, and as a diaspora Jew in Israel, Italy, Spain and the UK. A self-made migrant, Jacobs was a wanderer through other lands and lived in search, as he puts it, of the `right language’, which `exists somewhere / Like a country’. His poems are attuned to linguistic and geographic otherness and to the lingering sense of exile that often persists in a diaspora. In his quiet and philosophical verse we recognise an individual’s struggle for identity in a world shaped by migration, division and dislocation.

Nameless Country: Selected Poems

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Nameless Country gathers poems by the Scottish-Jewish poet Arthur `A.C.’ Jacobs, whose work, somewhat critically neglected in the past, has... Read more

    Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
    Publication Date: 25/10/2018
    ISBN13: 9781784106751, 978-1784106751
    ISBN10: 1784106755

    Number of Pages: 128

    Fiction , Poetry

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    Nameless Country gathers poems by the Scottish-Jewish poet Arthur `A.C.’ Jacobs, whose work, somewhat critically neglected in the past, has gained new resonance for twenty-first-century readers. Writing in the shadow of the Holocaust, Jacobs in his poems confronts his complex cultural identity as a Jew in Scotland, as a Scot in England, and as a diaspora Jew in Israel, Italy, Spain and the UK. A self-made migrant, Jacobs was a wanderer through other lands and lived in search, as he puts it, of the `right language’, which `exists somewhere / Like a country’. His poems are attuned to linguistic and geographic otherness and to the lingering sense of exile that often persists in a diaspora. In his quiet and philosophical verse we recognise an individual’s struggle for identity in a world shaped by migration, division and dislocation.

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